The right-wing nonprofit group that released the DEI Watchlist has identified federal employees who are allegedly “driven radical diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.” Masu. of financial arrangements that obscure the original donor.
One recent list created by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) includes the names of mostly black people who play a role in government health, which is allegedly linked to diversity initiatives. It’s there. Targeting employees of another targeted education department, another target calling “the most destructive immigration bureaucrats.”
The list goes on to say that Donald Trump’s budding administration, backed by the world’s wealthiest man, Elon Musk, will launch a huge federal belt and cleanse other initiatives, such as climate change efforts. So we come into the chaos of the US government. That Trump was called “wake.”
The disclosure of government workers’ personal information, which the website describes as “targets,” is reportedly “fearing” many people in the federal sector, but the Guardian is also entitled to the fact that it has been “frightened” by current and former employees. I discovered that some struggle to hide their affiliation. Groups of LinkedIn and other public websites.
One of the donors to the AAF is the Heritage Foundation, the architect of Project 2025. This promotes the power of the ideological force behind Trump’s reelection and the government’s first weeks.
Heidi Beirich, Chief Strategy Officer of the Global Project against Hate and Extremism, said: ”
According to the disclosure document, AAF will work with relevant conservative partnership labs in sessions that promise to train right-wing operatives with skills such as “open source research” and “cooperation with external groups.” It has been shown to be closely involved in training Republican staff.
Fear of fundraising
A significant amount comes from AAF through the funds that “Dark Money” donors have adapted.
In the latest filing wisely by a large donor, the AAF received $25,000 through the Goldman Sachs Charitable Fund. $16,750 through the National Christian Charitable Fund. $22,300 via the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
However, other donors have been named private foundations, some of which have also been donated to affiliated organizations, including the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI).
In 2022, for example, the Dan Foundation gave CPI $250,000 and AAF $25,000. In 2023, the same foundation gave AAF an additional $25,000, increasing CPI contributions to $2.5 million.
In 2023, the WL Amos Sr Foundation handed AAF $10,000, $55,000 for the American moment belonging to CPI, and $300,000 for CPI, and another $200,000 to the architect of Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.になったんです。 English: The first thing you can do is to find the best one to do.
The Guardian emailed to the Foundation sources of employees as councillors of the Dunn Foundation and to the Foundation sources of William Amos III, listed as president of the WL Amos Sr Foundation, according to the filing. Political advocacy.
The Guardian also emailed others listed as executive officers or trustees of other family foundations who made large donations to AAF, including Tina Kimbrough, executive director of the Nord Family Foundation. Harry McFetridge, the trustee of the Quinn Family Foundation.
Only Quinn’s McFetridge answered. “Because we are a family foundation, we can give gifts as consciously directed by various members of our family. Another member of our family made this particular donation. ”
She would give the Guardian question to the person, but added, “I can assure you that this is absolutely unbearable. I strongly oppose this approach to political advocacy. Masu.”
Other heavyweight conservative groups pitched for the AAF.
AAF is one of two organizations that will receive direct grants from Club for Growth Foundation in 2023, one of nonprofits and political committees, and billionaires mega donors Jeffyas and Richard Urein. and guide money to conservative causes and candidates for its affiliates.
According to tax returns, in 2023, the AAF received $50,000 from the 85 fund. It is one of a network of organizations funded by Leonard Leo, a conservative mega-donor and mastermind of the Federalist Association.
Although the AAF’s 2024 application is not available yet, last June, the organization said, “Possible new administration was launched this summer by posting the names of 100 government workers on its website. It is reportedly received $100,000 from Heritage for a project aimed at showing a new administration that could potentially be the second-term Trump Agenda Method.
“Incubation” by a conservative partnership lab
But the most important support for AAF comes from the organizations that created it. The CPI continues to have a major impact on the Trump administration and the Republican Party as a whole through its own activities and the activities of the spin fleet. – Off-group.
The AAF was established in 2021 to “take a handful of sand and throw it into the Biden administration’s gear.”
However, in 2021 and 2022, the submission of the CPI is “direct control entity” of the “related tax-free organization” AAF, with CPI up to $335,100 in 2021 and $210,000 in 2022 It shows that funding was provided.
This was a period when wealthy CPIs were incubating “a network of closely related think tanks, legal organizations and training centers specializing in the thorough federal transformation,” according to the public.
That network includes America First Legal (AFL), Renewing America (CRA), Electoral Integrity Project (EIP), American Moment, and AAF.
All of these groups have been featured on the Project 2025 advisory committee, with mostly staffing at the highest levels of the new Trump administration.
AFL’s Stephen Miller is Trump’s Deputy Chief of Policies. CRA Russell Vought is poised to be confirmed as Director of Management and Budget. And in a nearly reported move, Trump placed American Moment founder Saurab Sharma as his special assistant to the presidency.
Shape the mind of the Magazine
The Guardian reported last year that the CPI had solidified the relationship between the far right and the GOP by training events for council hill staff and their bosses
Many of these events took place at Camp Rydin. This is a 2,200 acre (890 hectares) property on the East Coast of Maryland, purchased after a $25 million donation was donated to CPI, and was made by retired Houston Software entrepreneur Mike Rydin . The wake of January 6th.
Others were held at one of at least nine adjacent facilities on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, which CPI has purchased since 2022. This is described as the $41 million “Shopping Spree” that created the “Maga Campus.”
CPI literature describes the precincts as “patriot columns.”
Records obtained from disclosures of the US Senate and House Ethics show that AAF benefited from being frontline and centre in many of these events.
On May 29, 2024, staff attended and later worked for senators such as Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and JD Vance, AAF’s Jones said, “Congress.” He was praised for talking about strategies for how to get closer to surveillance and accountability. AFL, CPI speakers, advances in American freedom and anti-immigration group Numbersa.
The parallel event, with the same lineup, attracted staff for the ridiculous MAGA representatives, including Anna Paulina Luna. He recently introduced a bill to see Trump’s face being added to Mount Rushmore. Trump has chosen to lead national intelligence in a newsletter defending Tulsi Gabbard.
Numbersusa is part of a network of groups “established and funded” by John Tanton, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center called “a man with racial and racist roots of the Nativism movement.” It was.
At the event held February 15-17, 2023, hosted by AAF and attended by council members staff such as Luna, Ken Buck and Marjorie Taylor-Greene, trainees said they “have accused them of agencies and witnesses.” It was about learning skills such as “How to effectively draft information requests.” “Conduct “Tools and techniques for conducting open source research institutions, individuals, and organizations,” and “mock interviews with passive/repeated witnesses.”
AAF’s silent researcher
Before the AAF, Jones worked on staff for Capitol Hill, a series of well-known, fierce right Republicans, including Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz and former Senator Jim Demint. heritage.
Since opening his AAF unit, he has been blood-blooding a new generation of right-wing opposition researchers. Some of these researchers appear to be reluctant to publicly promote their affiliation.
On LinkedIn, the four openly flag their partnership with AAF. Jones himself. Communications Manager Yitz Friedman in Brooklyn, New York; Development Advisor Nadeen Wincapaw in Tampa, Florida; Associate Researcher at Elizabeth Guinard of Helena, Montana.
However, the search engine cache version of Jerome Trunkle’s LinkedIn page in Washington, DC shows that he is the research director for AAF. The data broker also generates Tankle’s AAF-related email addresses.
Trankle’s Live LinkedIn profile allows you to conduct ESG & Financial Services research on “AAF” and “AAF” without using the use of his colleagues.
The Guardian emailed an address related to AAF’s trancars and asked why he didn’t promote his affiliation more clearly, but why he didn’t receive a response.
Additionally, the anti-fascist research group claimed late Wednesday that it identified additional researchers based on LinkedIn profile photos that were incorrectly included in the DEI Watchlist site’s purpose-built document on government workers. did.
The Guardian confirmed that the DEI watchlist evidence includes researcher profile photos.
One of those identified, Cari Fike, is married to Hugh Fike, senior director of CPI, and is 501(c)4 associated with Heritage Foundation, a former lobbyist at Heritage Action.
The Guardian contacted Fike to comment on her apparent involvement in studying the AAF government workers.
Extremist expert Beirich said, “It’s rather ironic that an organization targeting civil servants via a watch list that can be opened up to harassment and abuse, going to such lengths to protect itself. That’s what it is,” he said, “Obviously, they understand how they understand it. This outing is dangerous.”
Dirt Machine
Now, dirt machines targeting government workers have been polished to high profile targets during the Biden administration.
Early on, the AAF pointed out the opposition research machine to Biden’s candidates, including Saule Omarova, who was nominated for the Secretary of Currency. Sarah Bloom Ruskin, who was nominated for vice-chairman for overseeing the Federal Reserve, and Supreme Court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whose organization mistakenly claimed to be soft on sex offenders.
In the process of “deeply seeking dirt” from Federal Reserve candidate Lisa Cook, the AAF used a record-breaking request to snoop at its employer, Michigan State. But Jones went a step further 10 years ago by firing “dozens” of her colleagues to question her promotion of office.
A significant proportion of candidates targeted by AAF, including Brown Jackson, Cook and Omaroba, were women of color.
The dozens of civil servants whose information was collected in “relevant documents” on the DEI watch list site are overwhelmingly people of color. Of the 44 profiles listed on the agency at the time of reporting, 29 were people of color and 20 were women of color alone. Only five were white men.
“The fact that many on the list are people of color just adds another sleazy layer to the project,” Bayrich said.
“The recent attacks by the Trump administration on civil servants show that the MAGA/Project 2025 move will go as far as possible to make life miserable for civil servants.”
